lose nerve

With 1.4 billion fans expecting nothing less than victory each match - this pressure can make the best players jelly-kneed, drop their focus, or as seems the more likely, lose nerve in crunch situations.

Studies show Zolgensma can stop infants and toddlers from continuing to lose nerve cells that control muscle movement, preventing further decline, but it cannot restore motor or muscle function that older children have already lost.

They lost confidence in him, and he, feeling increasingly embattled, seemed to lose nerve in his ability to achieve reform, acting more and more on the defensive.

People fall in and out with each other, compromise themselves, fail to live up to their best aspirations, lose nerve and will.

This was, in its way, his first test, and to succumb would be to lose nerve for future difficulties.